Monday, 12 October 2015

What social media strategy to adopt for effective freelance book publishing career

Today the social
media has become the important part of everyone’s life. It is expanding it
horizon in every field from availability of online book publisher to selling
the books online and what not. Nowadays there are many websites like www.onlinegatha.com who publishes the books for the new writers and
provide them the new path of writing. Gone are the days when the writers have
to be dependent on the publishing houses to sell their books.

Now with coming
up of digital technology everything has been changed starting from publishing
houses, writers, booksellers to online book publisher, ebook publisher,
proofreaders and writers.

The availability
of internet and social media has made the life of both the writers and the
readers easy. The writers can easily upload their books on the websites and the
readers can download from their thus giving them multiple choice.

Social media is
the current iteration of internet which provide for
the social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and many other
websites.

Benfits
Of Social Media

1)Authors:Authors can
assist publishers in book marketing by increasing their visibility and
awareness through social media. Their interaction with followers and friends on
sites like Twitter and Facebook ,where they can discuss about the book which is
going to be published or has already been published draws the attention of many
buyer.

These social media sites can are the best
platform for the freelancer writers or the new writers website such as Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., where they can prove their writing capabilities.
Websites like Linkedin and Twitter is the best way of informing the other
employer about the qualities

2)Editors: Social
media is the paramount platform for the editors also who filter, condense and
improve upon manuscripts from writers.

Editors participate in conversations with their followers
and friends on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook which could
also serve as a good source of reference.

Moreover, social media sites like Twitter, Facebook,
Blogs, etc. could serve as discussion platforms for some editorial rules on
spelling, punctuation and grammar and many others. These editors build their
brand through these sites, employment opportunities for freelance editors could
be opened.

So, social media acts as a bridge between the writers and
the editor giving both of them the good employment opportunity.

3)Publisher : The online purchases have facilitated the need
for publishers to market and sell their products online by using social media
platform. It has, therefore, become paramount for publishers to upload their
work not only on companies website such as www. Onlinegatha.com but also reach
the readers on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, YouTube, and other social
sites.

Further, publishers can easily sell their work
by answering to the queries, complaints on their blogs by readers. The
publishers can also offer some discounts to their readers on the bulk purchase
or any article or book published by them by any writer.

Conclusion

Social media is the best platform freelancers
or for selling the books which are written by new writers.